Eric Meyers
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2,596 appearances
16 recordings
1 series
first heard Jun 2026
last heard 4d ago
Eric Meyers’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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It's hard for us to imagine the impact of all of this on those who were taking part.
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If the wealth of the rituals and the value of the offerings reflect the individuals,
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then we can assume that the two women were of high status.
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But in what way?
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A queen and her servant or slave, as the Norwegians decided after the excavation.
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We know very little about women at the highest levels of Viking society.
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The word queen might not even be accurate.
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The women were clearly special to the people who buried them.
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But perhaps beyond royalty, as we would understand it now.
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There's something more religious, shamanic even, suggested by the animistic imagery of the artifacts, and even the serpent stem heads of the ship itself.
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At first there was a theory.
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that the Osserberg might only have been built for the grave.
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Yet dendrochronology revealed it had been built many miles away in another part of Norway.
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And it had probably sailed for more than a decade.
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The replica of the Osserberg was begun in 2010 and took two years to build on the quayside in Tonsberg.
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So how important do you feel
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The King and Queen of Norway were present at the launch, and the replica now sails the fjord and the sea just like its forebear did more than one thousand years ago.
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It's an exact replica of the original.
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Not only in its overall structure, but every strake and plank was carefully copied right down to the smallest detail, including the ship's many intricate carvings.
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These too have been preserved.
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